Since its inception in 1984, the Project Management Institute (PMI) has made strides in formally defining and documenting the project management process and industry standards. One of the key books that the PMI helped craft and publish is The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (also known as the PMBOK). This serves as the foundation for preparations to become a project management professional (PMP). In 2013 there are 370,000 PMPs globally, and the number is steadily growing. The intent of this chapter is not to go into the project management processes in depth, but to understand how these are pertinent and relevant to wireless projects in healthcare.

The high-level processes that ...

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